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ExampleOne of the options for a steel works planning team looking to save future processing costs is whether to consolidate the strip mill to a single site. To help identify the forces involved, they build a Force-Field Diagram, as in the illustration. During completion of the diagram, it was found that the most significant force was not the opposition from unions, as was expected, but the political pressure. In a time of recession and shortly before elections, the government was applying significant pressure not to close plants in areas of high unemployment. This, coupled with other consolidation costs, gave sufficient reason for this initially attractive solution to be abandoned.
Fig. 1. Example Force Field Diagram
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